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Ch 6 vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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cash crop | crops grown for cash insted of personal use. |
farmers' alliance | conected farmers in the south and west. |
civil rights act of 1875 | gave blacks rights to public trains and hotels. |
reservation | specific areas set aside by the goverment for indians' |
sand creek massacre | warfare indians' joind foces to repel white settlement. |
sitting bull | army was sent out aginst the native americans. |
battle of the little big horn | killed custer and all of his men. |
chief joseph | led a group of refugees |
wounded knee | sealed the idnians' demise |
assimilate | adopting the culture and civilization of whites |
dawes general allotment act | replaced the reservation system with an allotment. |
vigilante | self appointed law enforcers. |
transcontinental railroad | a rail link from east to west. |
land grant | giving builders long wide stretches of land. |
open range system | property was not fenced in. |
homested act | offerd land to people willing to live there for 5 years dig a well and build a road. |
exodusters | a group of african americans. |